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Publications on HIFIS.
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# Publications, Presentations, News
##### 2021
* [**Helmholtz AAI**](http://marcus.hardt-it.de/2103-Helmholtz-AAI). Teaser talk, In: [74. DFN Betriebstagung](https://www.dfn.de/veranstaltungen/bt/infos/to-bt/#c18414), March 2021.
* [**HIFIS transfer service: FTS for Helmholtz**](https://indico4.twgrid.org/indico/event/14/session/10/contribution/46). In: [ISGC 2021 - International Symposium on Grids & Clouds](https://indico4.twgrid.org/indico/event/14/), March 2021.
* [**HIFIS: Sync&Share Federation for Helmholtz**](https://indico.cern.ch/event/970232/contributions/4157924/). In: [CS3 2021 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing](https://indico.cern.ch/event/970232/program), January 2021.
##### 2020
* **Digitale Dienste für die Wissenschaft - wohin geht die Reise?**, December 2020
* German version: [10.5281/zenodo.4301924](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4301924)
* English version: [10.5281/zenodo.4301947](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4301947)
* **HIFIS Software Survey 2020 Evaluation**, Blog Post Series, Nov 2020-Jan 2021.
* [A Community Perspective](https://software.hifis.net/report/2021/01/21/survey-results-community)
* [Consulting Perspective](https://software.hifis.net/report/2020/12/16/survey-results-consulting)
* [Programming, CI and VCS](https://software.hifis.net/report/2020/11/27/survey-results-language-vcs)
* [A Technology Perspective](https://software.hifis.net/report/2020/11/27/survey-technology)
* [**Federated data storage for Helmholtz Research & Friends**](https://www.openstoragenetwork.org/seminar-series/nov-12-2020-national-and-international-trends-in-research-storage-at-scale/). In: National and International Trends in Research Storage at Scale, [Open Storage Network](https://www.openstoragenetwork.org), November 2020.
* HIFIS presentations at [EGI conference](https://indico.egi.eu/event/5000/overview) (2-5 November 2020):
- [**Helmholtz Federated IT and Accessible Compute Resources for Applied AI Research**](https://indico.egi.eu/event/5000/contributions/14353/).
- [**HIFIS transfer service: FTS for everyone**](https://indico.egi.eu/event/5000/contributions/14383/).
* [**Presentations** of all major HIFIS working groups](https://hifis-events.hzdr.de/event/25/timetable/#all.detailed) at the 2nd All-Hands HIFIS Meeting, October 2020.
* [**HIFIS backbone transfer service: FTS for everyone**](https://indico.cern.ch/event/898285/contributions/4041954/). In: [HEPiX Autumn 2020 Online workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/898285/), October 2020.
* **Docker For Science**, Blog post series, September 2020:
* [Part 1: Getting Started with Docker](https://software.hifis.net/tutorial/2020/09/23/getting-started-with-docker-1)
* [Part 2: A Dockerfile Walkthrough](https://software.hifis.net/tutorial/2020/09/25/getting-started-with-docker-2)
* [Part 3: Using Docker in Practical Situations](https://software.hifis.net/tutorial/2020/09/29/getting-started-with-docker-3)
* **HIFIS - Platform, Training and Support for a Sustainable Software Development**. In: DLR Wissensaustausch-Workshop Software Engineering (WAW SE VII), September 2020.
* [**Zusammenarbeiten mit der Helmholtz-Cloud**](https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/media/media/oea/aktuell/print//lichtblick/246/hzb_lichtblick_ag-44_september-2020_extern_web.pdf), Lichtblick Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, page 4, September 2020.
* [**HZI-led Coronavirus Sero-Survey** in collaboration with HIFIS](https://www.dzif.de/en/how-many-people-are-now-immune-sars-cov-2), August 2020.
* [German Version](https://www.dzif.de/de/wie-viele-menschen-sind-heute-schon-immun-gegen-sars-cov-2)
* [**Promoting IT based science at all levels**](https://www.egi.eu/about/newsletters/helmholtz-federated-it-services-promoting-it-based-science-at-all-levels/). In: [EGI Newsletter #37](https://www.egi.eu/news/june-edition-of-the-egi-newsletter/), June 2020.
* [**HIFIS suggestions and guidelines**]({% link guidelines/index.md %}), Blog post series, May-June 2020.
* [Collaborative Notetaking]({% post_url 2020/06/2020-06-26-guidelines-for-collaborative-notetaking %})
* [Video Conferencing]({% post_url 2020/05/2020-05-15-guidelines-for-video-conferencing %})
* [Chatting]({% post_url 2020/05/2020-05-15-guidelines-for-chatting %})
* [**Summary of the Feedback Report of the Scientific Advisory Board**]({% post_url 2020/05/2020-05-27-sab-summary %}), May 2020.
* [**S/MIME Signing Git Commits**](https://software.hifis.net/tutorial/2020/04/15/smime-signing-git-commits), Blog post, April 2020.
* [**The HIFIS Cloud Competence Cluster**](https://indico.cern.ch/event/854707/contributions/3680436/). In: [CS3 2020 Workshop on Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing](https://cs3.deic.dk/), January 2020.
##### 2019
* [**Presentations**](https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/23411/material/slides/) at the 1st HIFIS Conference, October 2019.
* [**Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS) – Creating Services together**](https://betterscientificsoftware.github.io/swe-cse-bof/2019-11-sc19-bof/04-haupt-helmholtz.pdf) at [Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering (SC 2019 BOF)](https://betterscientificsoftware.github.io/swe-cse-bof/2019-11-sc19-bof/)
* [HDF Cloud – Helmholtz Data Federation Cloud Resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre](http://jlsrf.org/index.php/lsf/article/view/173)
* [Integrierte Entwicklungs- und Publikationsumgebung für Forschungssoftware und Daten am Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)](https://av.tib.eu/media/42518)
* [Anforderungen, Wünsche und Erfahrungen für den Aufbau des HIFIS Competence Clusters "Software Services" in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft](https://de-rse.org/de/conf2019/talk/LQDSZW/)
* [Continuous Documentation for Users, Developers and Maintainers](https://zenodo.org/record/3247324)
* [Share and synchronize your data with HZB Cloud Nubes safely](https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/zentrum/locations/it/datenablage/persoenliche/nextcloud/index_en.html)
# Software Publications
HIFIS creates its own software packages, but also contributes to Open Source software in general.
#### Software Packages
##### 2020
* [Ansible GitLab Role](https://gitlab.com/hifis/ansible/gitlab-role) - Ansible role to install and configure the GitLab Omnibus package, also in a high availability context.
* [Ansible Keepalived Role](https://gitlab.com/hifis/ansible/keepalived-role) - Ansible role that sets up Keepalived for high availabilty.
* [Ansible Redis Role](https://gitlab.com/hifis/ansible/redis-role) - Ansible role for setting up a highly available Redis cluster.
* [Ansible HAProxy role](https://gitlab.com/hifis/ansible/haproxy-role) - Ansible role to set up HAProxy to be used as a load balancer.
* [Ansible SSH keys role](https://gitlab.com/hifis/ansible/ssh-keys) - Ansible role to distribute authorized SSH public keys to users.
* [GitLab-Runner for Power](https://gitlab.com/hzdr/gitlab-runner/-/releases) - GitLab-Runner packages for the `ppc64le` architecture.
#### Contributions
##### 2020
* [**Python Poetry**](https://python-poetry.org/) - [Respect REUSE spec when including licenses](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/57)
* [**Ansible (community.crypto)**](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto) - [openssl_pkcs12 parse action: always changed in check mode](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/issues/143)
* [**Ansible Collection Hardening**](https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening/)
* [Use package state 'present' since 'installed' is deprecated](https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening/pull/168)
* [Add variable to specify SSH host RSA key size](https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening/pull/394)